After arriving at Shanhaiguan, our first stop was to taste four buns in the ancient city area of Tianxia First Pass, after all, the people took food as the sky, and after driving for four hours, we were already a little hungry.
Before going, I heard the big name of the four buns, the four buns are a long-established brand that opened in 1958, because it is located in the ancient city district of Shanhaiguan Four Streets and named, in fact, the four buns originally had no mystery, just ordinary flour, the common filling processed into beautiful buns, but the taste is unique, mellow but not hegemonic, fat and not greasy, it is long-standing and famous and more and more famous.
Arrived at the ancient city area of Shanhaiguan, under the guidance of navigation, it is through the alleys, many times because the intersection is too small to miss the opportunity to turn the corner and turn around in the narrow alley, I don't know whether it is the navigation in the new place also has a strange feeling or the old city itself is a long alley. Although it is already noon, because it is the off-season, there are not many people, so although it is a few times, it is not a big problem. Finally, after a few questions, I arrived at the traditional four buns.
Although there were not many people outside, it was also a shock to enter the inside, and the people who bought buns inside were lined up in a long line, and there were thirty people in front of them, and the seats were full.
The way to pay here is still the existing way to buy now, and the bun has only one filling, that is, pork and scallions, and the side dishes are only simple such as beef sauce, meat skin jelly, mixed tofu shredded, cucumber and other several, plus millet porridge. It's as simple as that, maybe simplicity is beauty, and it is hard to understand that simple buns, simple small dishes and millet porridge are so popular, and in such a tourist off-season, when the number of people is small, there are so many people who wait for a long time, which is also surprising.
Maybe if you eat inexpensive is one, two people have meat, vegetables, buns, millet porridge in total, more than 50 yuan, this should not be the whole reason why the four buns are so popular, right? One thing to do the ultimate, focus is the advantage, perhaps this is what we advocate "craftsman spirit". It is said that there are many branches of four buns, only in Qinhuangdao there are five, and each business is good, all say that the catering industry is a service industry to improve service, all say to learn Haidilao's service to do the service to the extreme, but there is basically no service and buy buns and buy small vegetables to queue up twice, their own buns, their own rice plates and chopsticks of the four buns but long-lasting, indicating that good things are king, the quality of catering is the best service, I don't know if this four buns will give many people inspiration?
Author: Qi Jian, director of the China Financial Writers Association, and a famous artist signed by the People's Publishing House Reading Club